Coevolution of Animals and Plants : : Symposium V, First International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, 1973 / / ed. by Lawrence E. Gilbert, Peter H. Raven.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Baker, Herbert G.,; Baker, Irene,; Dodson, Calaway H.,; Feeny, Paul,; Frankie, Gordon W.,; Gilbert, Lawrence E.,; Heinrich, Bernd,; Hocking, Brian,; McKey, Doyle,; Rothschild, Miriam,; Smith, Christopher C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Gilbert, Lawrence E.,; Raven, Peter H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2014]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)

It has long been recognized that plants and animals profoundly affect one another’s characteristics during the course of evolution. However, the importance of coevolution as a dynamic process involving such diverse factors as chemical communication, population structure and dynamics, energetics, and...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• General Introduction
• Biochemical coevolution between plants and their insect herbivores
• Remarks on carotenoids in the evolution of signals
• The coevolution of plants and seed predators
• Ant-plant mutualism: evolution and energy
• Coevolution of orchids and bees
• Studies of nectar-constitution and pollinator-plant coevolution
• The role of energetics in bumblebee-flower interrelationships
• The ecology of coevolved seed dispersal systems
• Tropical forest phenology and pollinator plant coevolution
• Ecological consequences of a coevolved mutualism between butterflies and plants
• Author Index